Thursday, January 29, 2015

Taxi vs Public Transit in major US cities

Nate Silver has recently published a nice piece in his blog comparing the travel time performance of taxis (usin data from Waze) vs public transit (using GTFS data behind Google Maps). Nate compared average journeys from the Airport to downtown during weekdays in major US cities. Here is the result:

[image credit: Allison Mccann 538]